Chauncey Billups Quotes
I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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What I've discovered from working with my father is that I'm still learning. I'm just a kid in this business. And I've seen from my father transitioning into being a director, that's where the power lies. And, like he says, it's feast or famine for an actor. If you're not creating your own material, then you're just fighting for whatever's out there. I definitely have the desire to go to the other side.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.
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It is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.
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I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.
